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• Facebook launches data abuse bounty program (cyberscoop.com)
  Facebook launched a data abuse bounty program on Tuesday in an effort to pay people that report apps which maliciously exploit user data.
• Thomas Bossert resigns from White House (cyberscoop.com)
  White House official Thomas Bossert, a special assistant to the president on homeland security matters, has resigned, the White House annou…
• Democratic lawmakers push Paul Ryan for info on election hacks (cyberscoop.com)
  Top Democratic lawmakers from six House committees are calling on House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan to compel the Trump administration to produc…
• Ransomware, phishing and pretexting are on the rise: Verizon (cyberscoop.com)
  Ransomware is the most prevalent malware attack and the human element continues to be a weak link in cybersecurity, Verizon reports.
• Carbon Black files for IPO; looks to raise $100m (cyberscoop.com)
  Based near Boston, Carbon Black provides anti-virus and endpoint security services to protect customers from cyberthreats.
• Air gapping voting machines isn't enough, says one election security expert (cyberscoop.com)
  Can election machines be hacked to change election outcomes? An computer science professor and election security expert explains why the an…
• White House seeks to tighten identity management in federal agencies (cyberscoop.com)
  A memo from OMB asks agencies to coordinate regularly to make sure federal identity management policies are consistently implemented.
• White House sanctions Russian oligarchs over malicious cyber-activity (cyberscoop.com)
  Among the oligarchs sanctioned is Oleg Deripaska, founder and owner of one of the largest Russian industrial groups.
• Nation-state hackers hit Cisco switches (cyberscoop.com)
  Hackers, some of them backed by a nation-state, have attacked Cisco switches in multiple countries, the tech giant’s cyber-threat intellige…
• Delta and Sears data breach exposes credit card information of customers (cyberscoop.com)
  Some customers of Delta Airlines and Sears had their credit card information exposed following a data breach last fall at a mutual contract…
• With trade war looming, Chinese cyberattacks may follow (cyberscoop.com)
  Cybersecurity and policy experts say government-backed cyberattacks between the U.S. and China may spike after years of calm.
• Mirai botnet variant likely used in January DDoS attack against Dutch banks (cyberscoop.com)
  A series of DoS attacks against Netherlands-based banks and government agencies was carried out using a Mirai botnet variant, according to…
• Air Force's cloud migration frees up airmen for cybersecurity mission teams (cyberscoop.com)
  The U.S. Air Force is in the midst of a major shift where it is outsourcing virtually all day-to-day IT and retooling its workforce for cyb…
• White House email domains are sitting ducks for phishing attacks: study (cyberscoop.com)
  The White House’s delay in implementing DMARC leaves its domain names vulnerable to being used in a large-scale phishing attack, according…
• CareFirst customers granted right to sue over 2014 cyberattack (cyberscoop.com)
  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's decision to dismiss a class action suit on Tuesday.
• Ahead of Trump-Putin meeting, Russian Embassy protests arrest of hacker (cyberscoop.com)
  The Russian Embassy to the U.S. accused Washington Wednesday of "kidnapping" Yury Martyshev, a Latvian man with Russian citizenship who is…
• Government's software vulnerability repository is slow to add new cyberthreats, report says (cyberscoop.com)
  There is a median lag time of approximately seven days between when someone discovers an exploitable software vulnerability and its eventua…
• Newly uncovered 'Zealot' malware could double as 2017 buzzword bingo (cyberscoop.com)
  A newly identified cybercrime scheme uses a malware mish-mash of two leaked NSA hacking tools, according to research from F5 Networks.
• Friction by design: FBI, DHS disagree on when to tell victims they’ve been hacked (cyberscoop.com)
  Competing interests exist between two of the predominant federal agencies tasked with stopping hackers from attacking the U.S., agency exec…
• Ahead of election, Germany looks to U.S. for intel about DNC hackers (cyberscoop.com)
  German defense officials are in Washington this week to discuss lessons tied to protecting elections from foreign interference.
• The bug bounty market has some flaws of its own (cyberscoop.com)
  Inflated bounties might be creating perverse incentives for young cybersecurity researchers and distorting the market for white-hat bug hun…
• Senator grills DOE official over lack of cyber training programs (cyberscoop.com)
  A shortage in qualified industrial control system, or ICS, cybersecurity professionals — individuals trained to defend the nation’s energy…
• Malware that bricks insecure IoT devices might be anti-botnet vigilante tool (cyberscoop.com)
  It's not clear how many devices might have already been damaged by the BrickerBot malware, the researcher who discovered it said.
• DHS says unauthorized Stingrays could be in D.C. area (cyberscoop.com)
  The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged the presence of what appear to be StingRay devices in the Washington, D.C. area.
• Trump administration says China broke Obama-Xi hacking agreement (cyberscoop.com)
  The Trump administration explicitly called out the Chinese government Thursday for having hacked U.S. companies to steal business secrets i…
• Major U.S. pipeline hit by cyberattack on transaction software (cyberscoop.com)
  A cyberattack has disrupted a system for processing customer transactions for a sprawling network of U.S. natural gas pipelines, according…
• New encryption bill from Senate Judiciary Committee in the works (cyberscoop.com)
  Senate Judiciary Committee staffers have started talking with technology companies on what would be in a bill that tackles the "going dark"…
• The Pentagon's latest bug bounty target is its travel booking system (cyberscoop.com)
  Because the Defense Travel System is used by millions of people and maintains sensitive information, hardening its security is a priority f…
• Under Armour suffers breach affecting 150 million MyFitnessApp users (cyberscoop.com)
  Under Armour said in a press release on Thursday that an unauthorized party accessed data including usernames, email addresses and password…
• Alleged NSA leaker seeks to subpoena major cybersecurity companies, intel agencies (cyberscoop.com)
  A 26-year old former NSA contractor, who is accused of leaking classified documents, is looking to subpoena some of the largest cybersecuri…
• Here's how much money states will receive for election security upgrades (cyberscoop.com)
  The $380 million in funding is one of Congress's first major steps to prevent a repeat of Russian hackers' meddling in the 2016 presidentia…
• Electric grid hacking exercise puts spotlight on shortage of security clearances (cyberscoop.com)
  As foreign hackers continue to probe the U.S. grid for weaknesses, a cyber exercise for the North American energy sector has shown that man…
• Extradited Russian Yevgeniy Nikulin pleads not guilty to massive LinkedIn breach (cyberscoop.com)
  Yevgeniy Nikulin, who allegedly stole data from LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court in San Francisc…
• ProtonMail mobile apps now allow users to stash sensitive contact information (cyberscoop.com)
  The feature allows users to store info like phone numbers, addresses, URLs and other notes in ProtonMail's iOS and Android apps.
• Boeing attack shows the fear over WannaCry is still very real (cyberscoop.com)
  An apparent tempest-in-a-teapot intrusion shows how even the biggest organizations to come to a crippling halt at any sign of the notorious…
• Microsoft's Meltdown patches introduced a whole new vulnerability (cyberscoop.com)
  Microsoft Meltdown patches have introduced an even more serious vulnerability in Windows 7 that allows attackers to read kernel memory.
• Eugene Kaspersky defends 'Slingshot' report (cyberscoop.com)
  Eugene Kaspersky is defending his company after it published its "SlingShot" research report that exposed an active U.S. cyber-espionage op…
• 'Drupalgeddon2' bug brings urgent patch from popular CMS developer (cyberscoop.com)
  A highly critical security patch was released for the popular Drupal content management system, which powers some of the world's most visit…
• Kenna Security raises $25 million in latest funding round (cyberscoop.com)
  Risk intelligence and vulnerability detection company Kenna Security on Tuesday announced $25 million in its Series C funding round.
• Government's supply chain risk is drawing more attention than ever, Capitol Hill aides say (cyberscoop.com)
  Supply chain risk and transparency in incident response are among the things keeping cybersecurity-focused government officials and partner…
• New BIMI email standard categorized as 'DMARC 2.0' (cyberscoop.com)
  Brand Indicators for Message Identification aims to bolster public trust in email, while allowing marketing messages to be safe for senders…
• Justice Department seeks dismissal of Kaspersky lawsuit, court documents show (cyberscoop.com)
  The Justice Department filed motions in district court Monday to dismiss two lawsuits brought by Russian cybersecurity and anti-virus provi…
• Potential for backdoors in foreign telecom gear draws FCC's attention (cyberscoop.com)
  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to bar U.S. telecommunications providers from buying equipment and services he sa…
• Matt Masterson joins NPPD as senior cybersecurity adviser (cyberscoop.com)
  Former Election Assistance Commission Chairman Matt Masterson is joining the Department of Homeland Security's office that coordinates the…
• TLS 1.3 approved: The internet's most important security protocol is finally moving forward (cyberscoop.com)
  TLS 1.3 was approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force after over four years and 28 drafts of back and forth at a meeting last week in…
• Tenable inches towards IPO, finally (cyberscoop.com)
  Columbia, Maryland-based Tenable Network Security has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to help it file for an initial public offering.
• Leader of Carbanak, group behind massive ATM hacks, is arrested (cyberscoop.com)
  The leader of Russian-Ukrainian cybercrime gang Carbanak allegedly responsible for stealing billions of Euros has been arrested in Spain by…
• Secure Elections Act is reborn with support from Senate Intel leadership (cyberscoop.com)
  A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the Senate Intelligence Committee is reintroducing a bill that aims to bolster election cybersecurity.
• Bipartisan bills call for disclosure of intelligence agency budgets (cyberscoop.com)
  The legislation would require the disclosure of at least the top-line budget request for each of the 16 intelligence agencies.
• ManageEngine vulns impact majority of Fortune 500 companies (cyberscoop.com)
  A new set of vulnerabilities in a network management tool used by nearly two-thirds of Fortune 500 is the latest example of high-consequenc…